Connecticut’s Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and how it is applied

No Child Left Behind requires each state to define adequate yearly progress for school districts and schools, within the parameters set by Title I. Each state begins by setting a "starting point" that is based on the performance of its lowest-achieving demographic group or of the lowest-achieving schools in the state, whichever is higher. The state then sets the bar--or level of student achievement--that a school must attain after two years in order to continue to show adequate yearly progress. Subsequent thresholds must be raised at least once every three years, until, at the end of 12 years, all students in the state are achieving at the proficient level on state assessments in reading/language arts and math.

     Initially, Connecticut will use the Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT) in Grades 4, 6 and 8 and the 10th grade Connecticut Academic Performance Tests (CAPT) for determining the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) status of schools. The state will introduce spring testing with a new generation CMT in the spring of 2006, and will expand the number of grades tested to include 3 through 8 inclusive. CAPT will continue to be used as the required high school assessment.

     Using the federal formula for setting AYP, Connecticut has established the following AYP standards for 2002-2003 testing:

     A school or school district that doesn't meet the state's definition of "adequate yearly progress" (AYP) for two straight years (school-wide or in any major subgroup), is considered to be "in need of improvement."

List of all the schools in Connecticut in need of improvement.

Just high schools in need of improvement.

Just elementary and middles schools in need of improvement.

Related Articles:

• 138 of 180 Connecticut high schools achieve ‘Adequate Yearly Progress’ under
  Federal ‘No Child Left Behind’ (pdf)
• 2003 CMT Results Show Gaps Beginning to Close (June 25, 2004) (pdf)
• Results from 2003 Administration of the Connecticut Academic Performance Test (12/2003) (pdf)
• 94 of 175 Connecticut High Schools Achieve 'Adequate Yearly Progress' under Federal 'No Child Left Behind' 2003 (12/2003) (pdf)
  

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